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MAJOR CROSSE
From THE
land for every part of the world Private letter written by the herd, that have placed' Major R. And the rising export figures and many hundreds of enthusiastic
Boggleywallah, May 23.
letters from Bedford owners all MY dear old Bodega,
At last luck has turned;
GRAIN Retires
SERVICE
THIS correspondence
concerning the Ma- jor's retirement from the Service is authentic and only the "names of people and places have been changed. It ap-: peared originally in a corps publication.
1 Crosse Grain under arreat. have the honour to state that Major R. Crosse Grain admits that he wore a false nose on over the world have shown that.
parade to-day. He maintains the Bodford is popular wherever It goes. Why this success ?
so as the use of false noses in For, in designing the Bedford my worthy old aunt is dead. that he had a perfect right to do range, Vauxhall experts studied She has left me a most ex- nowhere prohibited in Army re- qulations. He also states that he overseas conditions at first hand. cellent collection of shekels act it as a convenient receptacle They learnt what was wanted in trucks from the very man who which will enable me to view for a whistle, which, he points out, is directed always to be car- were going to use them.
London Town (with you of ried, while no procision is made Ju And, there organisation to make Bedford course) in a manner I have for its carriage in criating uni- form. I can obtain no further service and genuine spares avail- abla everywhare.
always thought befitting. It explanation of this conduct from cannot be induced tò discuss the Tested at every stage in the will not surprise you to I have the honour to be,
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Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, AUG, 19, 1936.
HEROIN TRAFFIC
GROWTH
try.
·
O.C., 2nd Bushwachers.
matter seriously.
[
would respectfully suggest trial under another section of the A.A. viz: Section 40 "Conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline."
A: Chump, Lt. Col. Commanding, 2nd Bushwachers.
J.A.G..
20th Circle.
For opinion.
A.A.G..
B. Snooks, A.AG.
June 20.
IT is regrettable that there is
no section in the Army Act dealing with acts of this nature. Having regard to the nature of the parade, I am in some doubt as to whether the charge should not be preferred under Section 35, as Treason, I am afraid I could May 27. not advise trial under Section 40 THE G.O.C. requests that you unless there is some evidence tu
A. Chump, Lt.-Col.
Judge Advocate, 20th Circle.
THE GO. renents to trane show that the wearing of a false
You have often, with that
a charge against Major R. Crosse nose by the prisoner produccil grasp of intellect which is HAS this Officer suffered from Grain, 2nd Bushwachers, based on effects injurious to good order the and military discipline. Did any tinguishes you, laid it down as the sunstroke? Was he sober the conduct described in equity of Providence that promo- yesterday, and is he of temperate attached correspondence. Early of the soldiers show by their con- tion in rank is always compensat- habits generally speaking?
compliance requested. Obtain, medical evidence An el for by a corresponding diminu-
an
B.0.
B. Snooks, Major. A.A.G. Boggleywallah District.
A.A.G..
tion of brain c.g. a lieutenant of these points. fair intelligence develops into a dull captain, a stupid major, an Idiotic imbecile colonel, and general. I am determined to part with no more of such intellect us I possess and am therefore going; It is the manner of my going which may interest you.
I have,
B. Snooks, A.A.G.
June 4.
duct that this was the case?
C. Gobble, Colonel J.A.G.
June 20..
A.A.G..
O.C.,
2nd Buchwachers. CONSIDER that a char THE GO.C. distinctly heard under section 142 Army T and saw men in Major
20th Circle,
and men.
B. Snooks, Major, A.A.G.
Act viz: Fulse Personation" Boggleywallah, May 26. would be most suitable for the Grain's company laughing. Can. Charge sheet in duplicate you obtain any other evidence in support of this among the N.C.O.'s as you know, never distinguished SURGEON-Major Jobba has case,
interviewed Major Grain and herewith. myself in peace or in war (except states in his opinion the prisoner C. Gobble, Colonel Offi, J.A.G. hy occasionally permitting my- self to act with common sense) is quite responsible for his actions, and I feel it only right to clothe is previous medical history does my departure at any rate with at point to sunstroke as having affected his mind. Major Crosse Grain has always been, to mu knowledge, strictly temperate.
A. Chump, L-Col.
distinction.
To-morrow is the year's big
JA.G.,
A.A.G.,
*
June 22.
June 4. THE G.O.C. cannot imagine UP to seek inquiry in PON inquiry I find it wr- THE
why you wish to charge this direction.
Major Crosse
from the false nose, exceedingly long and Commanding 2nd Bushivachers, Major Crosse Grain under this Grain, though unpopular with the
exceedingly red, adorned with two very lifelike warts. Wearing this false nose I intend to march past I shall be careful the General.
not to put it on until the battalion
*
section. Why not section 16 viz:-Conduct unbecoming Officer and a Gentleman?
An
B. Snooks, A.A.G,
Striking indication of tho growth of the heroin traffic | parade. locally is forthcoming in official I have provided myself with a statistics obtained
senior officers, is undoubtedly ex- tremely popular with the younger Superintendent of Imports and
O.C., 2nd Bushwachers. Exports. to which we gave
Boggleywallah, May 26.
officers of the regiment and the much. There is a feeling I find, amongst the men, that their publicity yesterday. These show
THE GO.C. cannot conceive that during the first half of the is formed up at the saluting base, any reason for Major Crosse
laughter is the principal cause of Major Grain's trouble. I have present year no fewer than 764,- when, as commander of the lead- Grain's conduct other than that
From HERE appeared to me to be reason to believe that, if called 978 heroin pills were seized in ing company, with a colonel far of temporary insanity.
too flurried to notice anything, I sympathy with the prisoner's Tepat dipinties in the way upon to give evidence, the men raids conducted by the Depart-shall be able to carry my project wife the Major-General is willing, if a charge were made out as rc- will state the cause of their ment, a figure which compares into execution without being sub on receipt of a written apology quested. Perhaps I was wrong, laughter was the conduct of the with 654,233 pills for the whole jected to the annoyance of previ- from Major Grain (provided Charge in accordance with section G.O.C.'s charger at the moment of 1935. If we assume that the ous argument on the question of also that he retires from the ser- 16 in duplicate herewith.
vice) to overlook the maller. propriety.
seizures for the remainder of the equal those of the first half
The General is an ass; the Colonel is an ass; and the Judge
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CONFIDENTIAL-DISCIPLINE
From the O.C, 2nd Bushwachers, fo The ARKistant Adjutant Gene, ral, Doggleywallah District.
Boggleywallah, May 24.
have the honour to reportį for the information of the G.O.C.,
Suppression
A.A.G..
B.O.
B. Snooks, A.A.G.
I
Boggleywallah District.
May 27.
A.A.G..
June 10.
C. Gobble, Col. J.A.G.
June 11.
nic
the company marched past.
A. Chump, Lt. Col. Commanding 2nd Bushwachers.
JA.G.,
20th Circle.
HAVE read the charge to the
June 22. prisoner. He informs
Please frame a charge against that he will object to the charge Major Crosse Grain under Section Inasmuch as he alleges that the 40 A.A.
MAJOR Crosse Grain firmly false nose worn by him was not I declines to offer any apology "unbecoming an officer and a chatever as he considers his con- gentleman," indeed it becomes him duct does not require any. more than his own. He has proving must inform you that I consider stated his intention of
of the any sympathy with Mrs. Grain this to the satisfaction entirely thrown away, as that lady Court by ocular, demonstration. has been hysterical ever since As a defence of this nature might witnessing the march past, and tend to be somewhat ludicrous I
Chinese Funerals
NHOULD not the
funeral be simplified?
I
B. Snooks, A.A.G. A.A.G..
July 2. Charge, in duplicate herewith.
C. Gobble, Col. J.A.GI
A.G.A.,
July 3. HAVE read the charge to He Major Cross Grain. states that he is prepared to meet
it. He desires me to inform you. that he will call upon the G.O.C. He as a witness for the defence. Chinese sideration. The bill reselies a high intends to prove the G.O.C. was wearing a set of false teeth, or
total.
*
at all events some false teeth on
wear
*
that the G.O.C. constantly wears FOOT PROCESSIONS
false teeth on, and off, duty. He also intends to call evidence ta Thousands of dollars are spent on presenting" to the general public an show that a Staff Officer in Bad- elaborate spectacle-a spectacle which bonuggah is allowed to will be remembered for years and false eye without question. with which, it is hoped, will be
I presume the prisoner is within coupled the name of the bereaved his rights.
A. Chump. Lt. Col.
to see what they will flo. the ratio will rise rather than
1. shall have to leave the Ser- otherwise the increase will bevice, of course, possibly without 133 per cent. In regard any pension, but this, fortunate to seizures of actual heroin a matter of complete indifference. I shall let you know that is, in addition to the pills the upshot.
Ever Yours, themselves, which are not high
R. Crosse Grain. in drug content-the figures are more startling. In the whole of 1935, the amount of heroin seized was 83%1⁄2 ounces, whereas for the first half of the current year the total is no less Sir, than 632 ounces, representing an increase, on the basis men- tioned, of well over 1,500 per for whom imprisonment has no cent. It has to be borne in mind, terrors whatever. of course, that these statistics of the traffic by present methods Many old Chinese customa Fool processions are even more ex- the parade of the 24th May, and merely represent actual seizures; is therefore impossible. Flog-doomed to die are dying fast. pensive." inasmuch as the discovery both ging might, however, prove suf-Viewed in the light of modern knowledge, perhaps it would be of pills and the drug itself, parti- ficient to drive the small people more desirable if they were all cularly the latter, is by no out of the business. The revenus dead. means easy, they camist give any officers are being worked almost) But, in common with other Asiatic real indication of the mammoth to death in their efforts to cope races, the Chinese cling tenaciously to the past and follow blindly the fool- dimensions which the traffic has with the problem, and, consider-stops of their ancestors, even though
The rich man who is so lavish in the burial of his dead justiges himself attained. One thing is certain, ing the extreme difficulties en- they belong to sume long forgotten
by saying that it is to the benefit of namely, that that traffic has ex-countered, they are certainly get- In the burial of their dead, the the poor who are employed to carry panded tremendously in recent ting results. But they need Chinese to-day are not far differont the various banners, innterna and months. The Colony is being backing up by heavier penalties from their countrymen of the past drums, and those who make the paper
century. They are unable to part flooded with the drug, with the being imposed on all who are from the old idea of pomp and show houses which are inter burned in the result that a big industry has found to be in any way connected and believe that the spending of much money is the only form of giving a with the traffic. Without ques- mun a "decent" burial. sprang up for the manufacture tion, the evil is being encouraged of pills. The factories are, astby clever propaganda, but, so'
Firms in Hongkong, who make it not we have previously pointed out, far as we are aware, the Govern- usually small
establishments,ment is taking no steps whatever their business to assist in funeral borrowed to pay for funeral expenses arrangements one of them under-remain owing for some considerable
July 4. to counteract this propaganda, takes to provide brass bands and "re time. easily moved and hard to detect, despite previous reports to the quisites for funerals and marriagea
TAJOR CROSSE GRAIN A burial among the Chinese is to
consents to send in his pa- but latterly quite a number of contrary. If any impression is and doubtless hires out the same either occasion-readily more pretentious concerns have to be made on the traffic-and band for
for the good name of the Colony give details of the likely expenditure say the least, a costly business, For!
to be incurred.
this reason, in some parts of China, pers upon being granted leave of been
benevolent and providant societies, absence from this date pending re- located. The problem ΠΟ effort should be spared to
families, ,thive. These which the authorities face is to wipe the evil out a most rigor. A brass band coata anything from formed with the object of helping tirement, and upon being furnish- get on the track of the people ous campaign must be initiated of men in the band, and on the dis- societies have latterly degenerated ed with a copy of the corres
and maintained. The least that tance to the burial ground. A cover into associations which provido a pondence in the case. behind this enormous trade. the Government can db," there for the coffin la even moro expensive. fixed aum estimated to be sufficient to Clearly there must be a really fore, is to devise co-operative A presentable one, complete with meet the cost of a not too elaborate
flower trimminga, enn be hired for funeral. big syndicate engaged in the methods between all departments, 370 to $80, this fee being undersicod business. The people usually and not permit the whole burden to include the lorry in which the Many Chinese are definitely in O.C,
favour of stamping out the tendency for outward appearances and pre- confined to searching out the
Other items such as the engaging venting the funeral from being con carry the fused with a chitfgay procesalon In or manufacture are obviously drug once it has found its way of coolies, and taxis to
mourners, have to be taken into con- the eyes of the Westerner, mere hirelings of bigger men, into the Colony.
dny.
family.
I'
O.C.,
2nd Buchwachers.
*July 4.
Major Crosse Grain will send
middle of the night.
in his papers the G.O.C. is Unfortunately, too, often, the willing to overlook the conduct of middle class wage carner tries to that officer, and will dispense with copy his example. Debts are con- further action. tracted in this manner and cases are'
B. Snooks. A.A,G. uncommon in which money
$15 to $20, depending on the number bereaved
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2nd Buchwachers,
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